Top Influencers: 101 UK Co-Founder & CTO’s To Follow in 2022

2 years ago

Co-Founder & CTO play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Co-Founder & CTO role. We have selected these Co-Founder & CTO’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.

Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Co-Founder & CTO’s. The list is in no particular order!

Vlad Yatsenko

Co-Founder & CTO @ Revolut

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Prior to co-founding Revolut, Vlad spent ten years building financial systems at tier one investment banks. Serving as CTO, Vlad has been at the forefront of Revolut’s award-winning technology, building a next generation banking experience. Learn more about Vlad Yatsenko on Crunchbase…

Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange. Read more aboutRevolut on Crunchbase…

Portman Wills

Co-Founder & CTO @ Wagestream

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Wagestream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. Read more aboutWagestream on Crunchbase…

Edward Bishop

Co-Founder & CTO @ Tessian

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Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way. Read more aboutTessian on Crunchbase…

Alberto Romero

Co-Founder & CTO @ Humn.ai

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Alberto Romero is the Co-Founder and CTO at HUMN.ai. Learn more about Alberto Romero on Crunchbase…

Humn.ai develops an insurance platform that delivers risk-adjusted insurance pricing in real time for commercial vehicle fleets. Read more aboutHumn.ai on Crunchbase…

Nikolai Rozanov

Co-founder & CTO @ Wluper

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Nikolai Rozanov is leading the development and research of Wluper’s stack and infrastructure by working on novel approaches in machine learning for conversational systems. He earned his BSc in Mathematics from Imperial College London and did his MSc in Machine Learning at University College London. Currently he is doing his PhD in Mathematics in a co-organised programme at Imperial College and UCL, where he is awarded studentship for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Learn more about Nikolai Rozanov on Crunchbase…

Advanced Conversational AI to provide powerful voice-first experiences for any industry. Read more aboutWluper on Crunchbase…

Michael Paterson

Co-Founder & CTO @ Beamery

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Michael Paterson joined Beamery as Co-Founder and CTO in 2015. Learn more about Michael Paterson on Crunchbase…

Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people. Read more aboutBeamery on Crunchbase…

Jean-Paul de Jong

Co-Founder & CTO @ Hereford Technology

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Jean-Paul is a solution realiser with a background in performant large scale integrations. Coming up to 30 years of industry experience, he has worked across Government in the Army, HMRC, Border Force, National Crime Agency and Europol. And private sector at Eli Lilly & Company, KPMG, Compaq Computer, PrimeLocation, Camelot, Airwave, Avoka and Citibank Learn more about Jean-Paul de Jong on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutHereford Technology on Crunchbase…

Ed Thompson

Co-Founder & CTO @ Matillion

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Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses. Read more aboutMatillion on Crunchbase…

Konstantinos Faliagkas

Co-founder & CTO @ Wealthyhood

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The first DIY wealth-building app for long-term investors. Read more aboutWealthyhood on Crunchbase…

Owen Turner-Major

Co-Founder & CTO @ Fat Llama

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Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured. Read more aboutFat Llama on Crunchbase…

Tom Livesey

Co-Founder & CTO @ Thriva

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Tom Livesey is the CTO and co-founder of Thriva. Prior to co-founding Thriva, Tom served as a contract software engineer at Newspaper Club and as a CTO at Droplet Online Limited. Learn more about Tom Livesey on Crunchbase…

Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health. Read more aboutThriva on Crunchbase…

Dan Hughes

Co-Founder & CTO @ Surematics

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Dan Hughes is founder & CTO at Radix. Learn more about Dan Hughes on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutSurematics on Crunchbase…

Matthew Davis

Co-Founder & CTO @ Perlego

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Perlego is an online library, providing students with unlimited access to over 650,000 academic titles with built-in learning tools. Read more aboutPerlego on Crunchbase…

Anders Hallsten

Co-Founder & CTO @ Divido

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Anders Hallsten is CTO and Co-Founder at Divido. Hallsten spent the last 10 years building e-commerce platforms for brands such as Hush Puppies and Fossil Watches. Learn more about Anders Hallsten on Crunchbase…

Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers. Read more aboutDivido on Crunchbase…

Olivier Lomenie

Co-founder & CTO @ Emolument

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Emolument is a crowdsourced talent intelligence platform. Read more aboutEmolument on Crunchbase…

Pruthvikar Reddy

Co-founder & CTO @ Carv

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Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski, serving as a digital ski coach. Read more aboutCarv on Crunchbase…

Aeneas Wiener

Co-Founder & CTO @ Cytora

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Aeneas draws on 10+ years of technical experience developing bespoke cloud-driven web applications. He holds masters degrees in Theoretical Physics and Computational Science from Imperial College London. His widely published postgraduate work focused on optical materials used for chemical sensing and invisibility cloaking. In 2011 Aeneas co-founded the Hermes Academy, an innovative nonprofit organisation backed by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Learn more about Aeneas Wiener on Crunchbase…

Cytora is a technology company that transforms underwriting for commercial insurance. Read more aboutCytora on Crunchbase…

Akeel Ahmed

Co-Founder & CTO @ intelliflo Ltd

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Akeel cofounded Intelliflo, along with Nick Eatock, in 2004 after completing the successful sale of a touch-screen business. Entrepreneurial and technically savvy, Akeel works on new propositions and is heavily involved in the technology platform. Outside work most of his time is spent with his wife and children. Learn more about Akeel Ahmed on Crunchbase…

intelliflo provides SaaS-based solutions for the financial services sector. Read more aboutintelliflo Ltd on Crunchbase…

Morgan Sowden

Co-Founder & CTO @ paydesk

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Currently a product-focused CTO at Lendinvest, a VC backed fin-tech disruptor in the mortgage-lending space. Formerly the CTO at the Octopus Group, where I co-founded and built octopuslabs.com, octopuschoice.com and octopuscash.com; built the Octopus digital design team from scratch, as well as their product and (distributed) engineering teams; and initiated the group transformation from waterfall to agile. I am also co-founder and CTO of paydesk.co, a B2B media platform with 6000+ journalists in 165+ countries. Prior to Paydesk, I was interim CEO and CTO of birthdayalarm.com, a very profitable online greeting card site with 55+ million active members. I’ve also been: Entrepreneur in Residence at Monkey Inferno, a San Francisco based startup accelerator; a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded (and sold) two other web businesses, including an early social network (2003); and a board member / NED. Mostly though, I am DJ and love Techno. Search for me on Mixcloud. Learn more about Morgan Sowden on Crunchbase…

On-demand workforce platform disrupting the recruitment industry one sector at a time. Starting with media and doing it with payments Read more aboutpaydesk on Crunchbase…

Tim Glaser

Co-Founder & CTO @ PostHog

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Tim Glaser is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at PostHog. Learn more about Tim Glaser on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutPostHog on Crunchbase…

James Harrison

Co-Founder & CTO @ Genesis Global

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James has over 20 years experience in senior technology, development & implementation roles for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, HSBC and vendors incl. Fidessa. During his career James has lived in New York, London, & Hong Kong. Prior to genesis global, James was regarded as one of the leaders in this field, managing global technical teams in supporting & delivering mission-critical, real-time systems for tier 1 global banking institutions needing their trading businesses to run near 24-7. Learn more about James Harrison on Crunchbase…

Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications. Read more aboutGenesis Global on Crunchbase…

Antonio Marino

Co-Founder & CTO @ Emma

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Emma is a financial app advocate that helps users avoid overdrafts, find wasteful subscriptions, and allows users control of their finances. Read more aboutEmma on Crunchbase…

Alan Mosca

Co-founder & CTO @ nPlan

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Alan Mosca is the CTO of nPlan. He is completing a part-time PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, where his research focused on ensemble methods and improvements to optimization algorithms in deep learning. Previously Alan worked at Wallaroo Labs, Wadhwani Asset Management, Jane Street Capital, and several software companies as well as on consulting projects in machine learning and deep learning. Learn more about Alan Mosca on Crunchbase…

Artificial Intelligence to provide schedule certainty for projects, by highlighting risk and suggesting optimal execution paths. Read more aboutnPlan on Crunchbase…

Lee Pickrell

Co-Founder & CTO @ Rainmaking Venture Studio

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Read more aboutRainmaking Venture Studio on Crunchbase…

Paul McWilliams

Co-Founder & CTO @ Yedup Limited

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Yedup develops real-time, continually adaptive AI technology for high value, ultra-low latency capital markets applications. Read more aboutYedup Limited on Crunchbase…

Ben Dixon

Co-Founder & CTO @ Sona

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Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience of front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of https://www.sona.is, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce. Learn more about Ben Dixon on Crunchbase…

Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce. Read more aboutSona on Crunchbase…

Dominique Guinard

Co-Founder & CTO @ EVRYTHNG

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Dominique Guinard is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the Web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. He is also a co-founder of WebofThings.org. Prior to that, he worked at MIT Auto-ID Labs, SAP, Auto-ID Labs Zurich, and Sun Microsystems. Guinard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Later on, he obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was listed 5th amongst the top 100 IoT thinkers by Postscapes. Early in 2012, his PhD research was granted the ETH Medal. Learn more about Dominique Guinard on Crunchbase…

EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things. Read more aboutEVRYTHNG on Crunchbase…

David Grey

Co-Founder & CTO @ WaveOptics

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David founded WaveOptics with Sumanta and is its Chief Technology Officer. Optical design, imaging and illumination have been David’s specialism for over 25 years. Previously, at Carclo Optics, he led the design of Passive Infrared lenses for high volume, high quality security and lighting control, and as head of Optics at BAE Systems, David led the development of head-up its displays. Learn more about David Grey on Crunchbase…

WaveOptics designs Augmented Reality (AR) wearables with enhanced features. Read more aboutWaveOptics on Crunchbase…

Mehdi Doghri

Co-Founder & CTO @ Save Your Wardrobe

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Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor. Interested in the Fintech, Fashion Tech, Retail Tech and consumer mobile apps. Learn more about Mehdi Doghri on Crunchbase…

FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable Read more aboutSave Your Wardrobe on Crunchbase…

Ilia Zintchenko

Co-founder & CTO @ Ntropy Network

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Read more aboutNtropy Network on Crunchbase…

Daniel Thomas

Co-Founder & CTO @ Gravity Sketch

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Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D. Read more aboutGravity Sketch on Crunchbase…

Stewart Whiting

Tech Co-Founder & CTO @ Current Health

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Read more aboutCurrent Health on Crunchbase…

Emanuel Lainas

Tech Co-Founder & CTO @ F6S

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F6S is the world’s largest platform for founders. Read more aboutF6S on Crunchbase…

Gwen Le Calvez

Co-Founder & CTO @ Birdie

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Gwen Le Calvez is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Birdie. Learn more about Gwen Le Calvez on Crunchbase…

Birdie is a digital caretech company focused on elderly care at home. Read more aboutBirdie on Crunchbase…

Prashant Kumar

Co-Founder & CTO @ Cardinality

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Cardinality’s innovative new analytics platform has been designed from the ground up with the primary focus on the Telco market. Read more aboutCardinality on Crunchbase…

Chris Pointon

Co-founder & CTO @ Racefully

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Enabling businesses to increase employee engagement and lower health costs through a compelling virtual team-based fitness solution. Read more aboutRacefully on Crunchbase…

Andre Elias

Co-Founder & CTO @ FIDEL API

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Fidel API is a global financial infrastructure platform, providing tools to build powerful, real-time products on top of payment cards. Read more aboutFIDEL API on Crunchbase…

Mykhailo Loginov

Co-founder & CTO @ Vimma

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Productivity Suite for Passion Entrepreneurs Read more aboutVimma on Crunchbase…

Raphael Holca-Lamarre

Co-Founder & CTO @ Mimica Automation

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Raphael Holca-Lamarre is Co-Founder & CTO at Mimica.ai. Raphael completed a PhD at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning, developing brain-inspired learning algorithms for deep neural networks. Learn more about Raphael Holca-Lamarre on Crunchbase…

Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks. Read more aboutMimica Automation on Crunchbase…

Dave Ettle

Co-Founder & CTO @ Zynstra

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Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge. Read more aboutZynstra on Crunchbase…

Tobias Rijken

Co-Founder & CTO @ Kheiron

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Tobias Rijken is the co-founder and CTO of Kheiron. Learn more about Tobias Rijken on Crunchbase…

We’re going where no-one has ever gone before. — We’re fighting cancer. — Lives are at stake. Read more aboutKheiron on Crunchbase…

Adam Billyard

Co-Founder & CTO @ Polystream

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Having been in the industry since the dawn of time (well at least 1981) Adam has a wealth of experience and expertise in realtime graphics development that has led to the creation of some of the most successful game franchises seen in the last 20 years. As a Co-Founder of Criterion, in 1992 Adam oversaw the development of Renderware; one of the most successful 3D rendering engines subsequently instrumental to some of the largest game franchises of the last few years. Following Criterion’s acquisition by EA, Adam became VP and CTO at EATech until leaving in 2008 to pursue new challenges. Having founded Lightup software, Adam delivered the highly successful LightUp Analytics for energy efficient building design. With all this it shouldn’t be a surprise that Adam is a named inventor on 10 patents and counting. Learn more about Adam Billyard on Crunchbase…

Building the 3D internet // Powering a new era of instantly scalable, cloud native, metaverse experiences Read more aboutPolystream on Crunchbase…

Greg Smyth

Co-founder & CTO @ Urban Jungle

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Urban Jungle provides an insurance technology to help young people get cheaper, better home insurance. Read more aboutUrban Jungle on Crunchbase…

Alison Noble

Co-Founder & CTO @ Intelligent Ultrasound

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Alison is a world-leading expert in the field of digital image analysis, particularly with respect to medical ultrasound. She is the Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the IBME in Oxford, UK and was awarded an OBE in 2013. Learn more about Alison Noble on Crunchbase…

Intelligent Ultrasound develops software that improves the quality, reliability, and diagnostic power of medical ultrasound. Read more aboutIntelligent Ultrasound on Crunchbase…

Murat Abur

Co-Founder & CTO @ Suade

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Suade’s is bridging the financial regulatory gap through modern technology, designed to prevent the next financial crisis. Read more aboutSuade on Crunchbase…

Nick Reffitt

Co-Founder & CTO @ Tapdaq

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Nick has been coding since a young age. He picked up programming aged 12, and started consulting a year later. He met Ted at a similar time, and they both hacked on various projects over the years. Nick is in charge of all the technical aspects to Tapdaq. CS grad from University of Kent. Learn more about Nick Reffitt on Crunchbase…

Tapdaq helps mobile developers to maximise their revenue with unbiased ad mediation, and retain their most valuable users. Read more aboutTapdaq on Crunchbase…

Michele Riccardo Esposito

Co-Founder & CTO @ Candu

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Michele Riccardo Esposito is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Candu. Learn more about Michele Riccardo Esposito on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutCandu on Crunchbase…

Somesh Selvachandran

Co-Founder & CTO @ Magpie Education

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Somesh built electronic trading systems for Morgan Stanley, before leaving to co-found Innovate My Curriculum and Talking Circles. He enjoys pouring his passion for computing into projects to help teachers in the classroom and get more kids coding. Learn more about Somesh Selvachandran on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutMagpie Education on Crunchbase…

Artem Stalpouski

Co-founder & CTO @ Drfocused

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Artem Stalpouski is the Co-founder & CTO @drfocused Bending rules across the borders. Learn more about Artem Stalpouski on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutDrfocused on Crunchbase…

Anton Firth

Co-Founder & CTO @ DyeRecycle

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DyeRecycle develops an innovative dyeing fibers technology using recycled dye from textile waste. Read more aboutDyeRecycle on Crunchbase…

Ryan Dunwoody

Co-Founder & CTO @ Pi-Top

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Ryan Dunwoody is a Co-Founder & CTO at Pi-Top. Learn more about Ryan Dunwoody on Crunchbase…

Pi-Top is a creative learning company and their mission is to inspire a generation of makers, fixers & problem solvers. Read more aboutPi-Top on Crunchbase…

Cabell de Marcellus

Co-Founder & CTO @ Dianomi

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Cabell, Co-Founder and CTO, is responsible for the strategic development of dianomi’s platform, he coded the original HA/LAMP architecture. He also represents dianomi in North America presenting to advertisers and publishers. Prior to founding dianomi, Cabell was Head of Software Development and Equity Services at Interactive Investor where his software was a vital part of the $1BN flotation. Learn more about Cabell de Marcellus on Crunchbase…

Dianomi is a global leader in content marketing. Read more aboutDianomi on Crunchbase…

Jordan Van Flute

Co-Founder & CTO @ Inovus Medical

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Jordan is is a psychology graduate from Cardiff University. His main roll is head of the design and manufacturing team, the area in which he is the most passionate. It is his original research into psychomotor testing and laparoscopic surgery, which provided the fundamental ideas for the first Pyxus laparoscopic simulator. Learn more about Jordan Van Flute on Crunchbase…

The perfect package for any general surgical trainees or residents. Read more aboutInovus Medical on Crunchbase…

Dorian Logan

Co-Founder & CTO @ BrightTALK

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has been the chief architect of BrightTALK™s technology since joining the company in 2004. Mr. Logan brings more than 20 years experience developing enterprise applications to his position as chief technology officer, working previously for IBM Global Services in the Interactive Media Center and Scient. He graduated from Nottingham Trent University (U.K.) with a bachelor™s degree in Computer Systems. Learn more about Dorian Logan on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutBrightTALK on Crunchbase…

Chris Wessels

Co-Founder & CTO @ Paybase

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Paybase is a end-to-end solution for Payments, Compliance and Risk. Read more aboutPaybase on Crunchbase…

Ben Crowther

Co-Founder & CTO @ LettUs Grow

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A design engineer with the culinary touch, Charlie ensures that LettUs Grow runs as smoothly as our tech.On a mission to reduce food waste, he’s focused on driving the company forward. Learn more about Ben Crowther on Crunchbase…

LettUs Grow design aeroponic irrigation and control technology for vertical farms. Read more aboutLettUs Grow on Crunchbase…

Peter Husemeyer

Co-Founder & CTO @ Sportable

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Peter Husemeyer is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Technology Officer at Sportable. Learn more about Peter Husemeyer on Crunchbase…

Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. Read more aboutSportable on Crunchbase…

Stephen Rayment

Co-founder & CTO @ Systech International

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Stephen Rayment Systech International : Systech International is the leading global provider of commercial management and project controls. www.behance.net/stephenrayment Learn more about Stephen Rayment on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutSystech International on Crunchbase…

Mark Williamson

Co-founder & CTO @ Hanzo

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Read more aboutHanzo on Crunchbase…

Idlir Liko

Co-Founder & CTO @ OMass Technologies

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Idlir Liko is currently the founder and Technology Director of OMass Therapeutics. He received a Master’s Degree from ETH Zurich in 2012 and DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015, supervised by Prof. Dame Carol Robinson where he focused on the effect ligands and PTMs have on structure and stability of membrane proteins. His work was been featured in many high-impact publications. He has a wealth of experience in structural MS working in close collaboration with biotech and pharmaceutical companies. In 2016, he co-founded the company and has played a key role in transferring our technology from academia to industry. Learn more about Idlir Liko on Crunchbase…

OMass Technologies is a drug discovery company exploiting novel mass spectrometry platforms to develop therapeutics. Read more aboutOMass Technologies on Crunchbase…

Mitul Sudra

Co-Founder & CTO @ OpenWrks

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A key figure at the very earliest stages of Open Banking’s inception, Mitul is transforming the vision for Open Banking into real value. Mitul’s team create the technology that powers everything OpenWrks does. Learn more about Mitul Sudra on Crunchbase…

OpenWrks is an Information Technology Company. Read more aboutOpenWrks on Crunchbase…

Nikita Korotaev

Co-Founder & CTO @ RELAYTO Document Experience Platform

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Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017. Learn more about Nikita Korotaev on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutRELAYTO Document Experience Platform on Crunchbase…

Imran Shafqat

Co-Founder & CTO @ ThingTrax

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ThingTrax helps manufacturers reduce downtime and increase operational efficiency with their devices capturing data from machines. Read more aboutThingTrax on Crunchbase…

Jaime Lomeli-R.

Co-Founder & CTO @ Aura Vision

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Co-Founder and CTO at Aura Vision Labs Learn more about Jaime Lomeli-R. on Crunchbase…

Aura Vision enables brick-and-mortar retailers to positively influence shopper journeys with cutting-edge computer vision. Read more aboutAura Vision on Crunchbase…

Jaya Krishnan

Co-founder & CTO @ Genome Biologics

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Prof. Jaya Krishnan has more than 20 years experience in preclinical models and cardiovascular disease research. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London and led research at the ETH-Zurich, Medical Research Council UK and Imperial College London. He currently leads an RNA Therapeutics group in Germany. Learn more about Jaya Krishnan on Crunchbase…

Read more aboutGenome Biologics on Crunchbase…

Alistair Potts

Co-Founder & CTO @ Open Energy Group

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Alistair brings a range of technical skills and entrepreneurial experience to the Open Energy team. Alistair began his career at the e-commerce pioneer Screen Pages in London, developing their innovative retail core and implementing a wide range of cutting edge business-oriented processes aimed at both the B2B and B2C sectors. He has subsequently founded and run a number of successful e-businesses in the UK. Alistair coxed for Great Britain and Cambridge University, where he received a doctorate in architecture. Learn more about Alistair Potts on Crunchbase…

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Robert Taylor

Co-Founder & CTO @ Salesorder.com

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Salesorder is an inventory and order management software for distributors, wholesalers, and ecommerce. Read more aboutSalesorder.com on Crunchbase…

Neil Tocher

Co-Founder & CTO @ NCTech

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Co-founder, CTO, Visionary & Strategist at NCTech. Developing and deploying new technologies at global scale. Working closely with the world’s largest tech companies to improve workflow and deliver future multilayered dataset analysis from our ML and AI pipelines to over 200 million users. Neil is a serial entrepreneur in technology innovation with over 25 years business experience and in pioneering 360 3D imaging for virtual reality. Learn more about Neil Tocher on Crunchbase…

NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC Read more aboutNCTech on Crunchbase…

Toby Schulz

Co-Founder & CTO @ Vantage Power

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Toby Schulz is the Director Electrification & Systems IRD at Allison Transmission. Learn more about Toby Schulz on Crunchbase…

Vantage Power designs and manufactures powertrain electrification and connectivity technologies for heavy-duty vehicles. Read more aboutVantage Power on Crunchbase…

Callum Rimmer

Co-Founder & CTO @ By Miles

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By Miles is reinventing car insurance – pay an annual cost to cover your car while it’s parked, then pay by the miles you drive each month. Read more aboutBy Miles on Crunchbase…

Adam Pluta

Co-Founder & CTO and Lead Software Developer @ ExpoCart

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ExpoCart is home to the biggest range of products and services for events. Read more aboutExpoCart on Crunchbase…

Alex Heneveld

Co-Founder & CTO @ Cloudsoft Corporation

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Alex brings twenty years experience designing software solutions in the enterprise, start-up, and academic sectors. Alex was with Enigmatec Corporation where he led the development of what is now the Monterey® Middleware Platform™. He founded PocketWatch Systems, commercialising results from his doctoral research. Alex holds a PhD (Informatics) and an MSc (Cognitive Science) from the University of Edinburgh and an AB (Mathematics) from Princeton University. Learn more about Alex Heneveld on Crunchbase…

Cloudsoft is a software company providing multi-cloud application management with open-source tools. Read more aboutCloudsoft Corporation on Crunchbase…

Tom Godber

Co-Founder & CTO @ Masabi

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Tom is a Co-Founder of Masabi and a mobile programming expert with a passion for design and usability. Keenly aware of changing mobile trends in what is one the fastest moving consumer markets today, he defines the technical strategic goals and implementation plans that allow Masabi to best meet the needs of end users. Tom has spent almost ten years at Masabi building mobile applications, servers and frameworks, troubleshooting, and architected a gaming platform now processing millions of dollars per month. Prior to founding Masabi, Tom worked with Accenture and Trilogy Software in addition to founding MoMo Estonia. Tom has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University. Learn more about Tom Godber on Crunchbase…

Masabi is the global leader in transport mobile ticketing and payments. Read more aboutMasabi on Crunchbase…

Sridhar Rajagopalan

Co-founder & CTO @ StepZen

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Sridhar Rajagopalan is a Software Engineer and CTO at StepZen. Learn more about Sridhar Rajagopalan on Crunchbase…

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Stefan Friederichs

Co-Founder & CTO @ Leaf Logistics

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Joan Figuerola Hurtado

Co-Founder & CTO @ SpecifiedBy

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SpecifiedBy helps architects, designers and specifiers to make informed decisions about building products Read more aboutSpecifiedBy on Crunchbase…

Andrew Mahood

Co-founder & CTO @ Precursive

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Customer onboarding, resource management and professional services automation native on Salesforce. Read more aboutPrecursive on Crunchbase…

Hassan Ahmadzadeh

Co-Founder & CTO @ Elixivity

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Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI Read more aboutElixivity on Crunchbase…

Nicolas Slack

Co-Founder & CTO @ Naurt

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Nicolas Slack is a Co-Founder and CTO at Naurt. Learn more about Nicolas Slack on Crunchbase…

Naurt offers a plug-and-play toolkit for high-precision, beacon-free tracking that works anywhere in the world, both indoors and outdoors. Read more aboutNaurt on Crunchbase…

Chris Roach

Co-founder & CTO @ Moltin

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James King

Co-Founder & CTO @ Encore Technologies

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An avid pianist and our CTO, James is rarely seen away from a keyboard of some kind. Learn more about James King on Crunchbase…

Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them. Read more aboutEncore Technologies on Crunchbase…

Patrick Verdon

Co-Founder & CTO @ Tutorfair

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Patrick is a serial entrepreneur based in Cambridge, UK and is currently the CEO of Youreko, a cleantech start-up he founded which provides consumer friendly energy efficiency information for household electricals. Prior to Youreko, Patrick was the CTO of ZYB, the networking and mobile backup site, sold to Vodafone in 2008 for 31.5M euro. Learn more about Patrick Verdon on Crunchbase…

Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all Read more aboutTutorfair on Crunchbase…

Simon White

Co-founder & CTO @ Rebank

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Simon White is the co-founder and CTO of Rebank. Prior to joining Rebank, he worked at Soreto Limited as the head of technology/lead developer. Simon has held positions at Fincluster Ltd, Thales Australia, and Unisys Australia. Learn more about Simon White on Crunchbase…

The single source of truth for startup finances Read more aboutRebank on Crunchbase…

Elnar Hajiyev

Co-Founder & CTO @ Realeyes

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Elnar stands at the heart of Realeyes’ core technology and IT architecture, driving the company’s emotions tracking vision. Elnar started coding at the age of 10 and built some of the first online shops in Azerbaijan. At 18, he created Azerbaijan’s first online beauty pageant, which got hundreds of thousands of hits, millions of TV viewers and extensive nationwide press coverage. He has also co-authored numerous academic publications, as well as been the recipient of several awards and prestigious scholarships. He went on to study for a fully-funded PhD in Computer Science at Oxford focused on database structures, which now form the essential foundation of our technology platform. During his PhD Elnar co-founded Semmle – working on big data analytics technology to provide business intelligence – and managed the company during its first few years before a fateful meeting with Mihkel led him to becoming one of the co-founders of Realeyes. He has built and now leads our Research & Development offices in Eastern Europe, and has been granted a US patent, with 6 more EU patents currently pending. Learn more about Elnar Hajiyev on Crunchbase…

Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI Read more aboutRealeyes on Crunchbase…

Alvaro Gauterin

Co-Founder & CTO @ FitSense

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Andy Kilner

Co-Founder & CTO @ Piclo

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Andy Kilner is Co-Founder & CTO at Open Utility. Learn more about Andy Kilner on Crunchbase…

Piclo develop software to make our electricity grids smart, flexible and sustainable. Read more aboutPiclo on Crunchbase…

Robin Frost

Co-Founder & CTO @ Curamicus

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Curamicus is developing massively scalable assistive technology. Read more aboutCuramicus on Crunchbase…

Rusty Johnson

Co-Founder & CTO @ SharpCloud Software

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Data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories, helping you make smarter strategic decisions. Read more aboutSharpCloud Software on Crunchbase…

David Wilson

Co-Founder & CTO @ One Model

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David Wilson is Co-Founder & CTO at OneModel. Learn more about David Wilson on Crunchbase…

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Niluka Satharasinghe

Co-Founder & CTO @ Sparrho

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Sparrho lead the world in democratising science using augmented intelligence. Read more aboutSparrho on Crunchbase…

Peter Schrammel

Co-founder & CTO @ Diffblue

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Peter is CTO and co-founder of Diffblue. He has significant experience as a software project lead in the embedded systems industry and a strong track record in program analysis. Prior to Diffblue he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sussex. Learn more about Peter Schrammel on Crunchbase…

An Oxford spin-out using AI to write code, starting with Java unit test suites that catch errors earlier and faster in a DevOps pipeline. Read more aboutDiffblue on Crunchbase…

David Burns

Co-founder & CTO @ Original People

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Digital design and innovation studio, based in Soho, London Read more aboutOriginal People on Crunchbase…

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